From People Online: Director Samuel Fuller, whose blunt and often violent films ("The Big Red One" [PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, SHOCK CORRIDOR, THE NAKED KISS, STEEL HELMET, etc.] reflected his experience as a Depression-era drifter, a World War II hero and a crime reporter, at his Hollywood Hills home, of natural causes, Thursday [October 30, 1997]. He was 86. For more credits, see the Internet Movie Database: http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?Fuller%2C+Samuel ---- Jeremy Butler [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite